*SUZANNE, SUZANNE*, Camille Billops' first film, has been added to the National
Film Registry
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diversity of American film heritage to increase awareness for its
preservation.
SUZANNE, SUZANNE (Camille Billops & James Hatch, 1982, 30 min)
*"This insightful 30-minute documentary profiles a young black woman,
Suzanne Browning, as she confronts a legacy of physical abuse and its role
in her descent into substance abuse. The film was conceived by Browning's
aunt, Camille Billops, as a sort of cinematic drug intervention. Family
remembrances revealed the truth behind the addiction: Suzanne and her
mother were victims of domestic abuse at the hands of the family
patriarch. Armed with the key to her own self-destructive behavior,
Suzanne struggles to understand her father's brutality and her mother's
passive complicity. After years of silence, Suzanne and her mother are
finally able to share their painful experiences with each other in an
intensely moving moment of truth. Directed by Billops and James Hatch, this
film essay captures the essence of a black middle-class family in crisis."*
--National Film Registry
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*Finding Christa*
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Camille Billops & James Hatch
1991, 55 min., Color, US
This documentary presents a moving yet unsentimental view of motherhood and
adoption. It explores the feelings surrounding the reunion of a young woman
with her natural mother 20 years after being giv...
*The KKK Boutique ain't Just Rednecks*
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Camille Billops & James Hatch
1994, 60 min., Color
Write Billops and Hatch: "Even as late as a hundred years ago,
discrimination on the basis of race was considered a natural and even
desirable trait for humans to possess. We Americans have tried to i...
*Older Women and Love*
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Camille Billops & James Hatch
1987, 26 min., Color, US
Using interviews and dramatizations, this film achieves a touching and
often humorous look at social attitudes towards relationships between older
women and younger men. The filmmakers are involved on...
*A String of Pearls*
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Camille Billops & James Hatch
2002, 56 min., Color, US
With this film, Camille Billops completes her family's trilogy - three
documentaries that cover more than thirty years: "Suzanne Suzanne", shown
in the New Director's series at the Museum of Modern Ar...
*Take Your Bags*
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Camille Billops
1998, 11 min., Color, US
"My take on slavery: When the Africans boarded the ships bound for America,
they carried in their bags all their memories of home. When they arrived in
the New World, their bags had been switched, and...
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